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Cover charge of 50¢0 Food and refreshment will be availableo If you have questions, contact Scott Eatherly--office 438-7848, home 454-1787, or Jessica Binkley-- 438-2977, or call Newman Center at 452-5046. Page, 2o COPS PROWL IN LEXINGTON .- TOSS, SPLAT--BASH . � . Lexington police were full of tricks, Eventually, th'is Hallowee·n, Webb gave You can't hear that line on.the. tape , not treats, this Halloween--if you can Gerwick a ticket for- d_ri ving. without . · becau.i:re ·of the· general ·commetion, but late·r you. can hear Al.say, "That son of. a taillight and let him.go. ·. call a bash in the head a trick.- It's � . • • ' f ·' a certainly dirty. · bitch hit me on the head." Meanwhile back at the Frieamans' .......... Officer Michael Webb yanked Al Friedman ,/garage the other three· guys were still "You're lucky," Webb replied. - . from his car, threw him to the g�ound, lobbing an occasional :apple. ·or p,ear at swung at him once with his nightstick ·the people they knew were out prowling Later� the police got ·corifused. about · and missed before connecting with the around looking for trouble.· A former _exactly' what-happened and· charged 'Al back of Friedman's head on the second Lexington po'lice ·chief' h'ad once told·­ Frie�an with :res.fsting arrest for. try. All because Webp suspected .them tha.t the city council gave lists· supposedly trying to' hit Webb. Al. · did threaten to hlt Webb (when Webb Friedman and two .others-of throwing of names of people to harass to· new- · · . eggs and tomatoes (according to the police. was choking him) but he never actually . Pantagraph), or maybe it .was apples tried ii;. · · · and tomatoes. (according to the· charges), If the former chief's' story is true, · Anyway, the Frledmans and G�rwick at hie. squadcar-. {According ......to the Webb and Tulle did their best to follow were­ · r __ andcuff�d and taken to the . county jail. _ throwers, it was· apples .anq pears. ) orders. They drove up and down an lf in Blomr�ingto.n. On the way, · they had alley near �.the Friedmans' gar;;:i,ge- and. - · The Halloween incident was· the latest prowled around- the�'-Friedmans' ·y?-r.d , to endure . a number�o.f threats and in a long series of , poJice ·harassments. shining flashlights. taunts1 in Lexington. The police there are' 'fond of' threatening people with · The two Friedman· bpothers ·and Max shotguns and·harassi�g young people­ Gerwick retaliated by putting a block while they hang out in the parking of wood covered with.a black rug in the lot of a local fertilizer store. alley. The police ran into it--a collision that did little to improve their usual bad t.empers. The three young men were also tossing apples and pears--not. eggs or tomatoes as the police later claimed--o·ver. houses at the police� .By and by, the police. entered, the Friedman garage but didn't find the:i,r three opponents, altJ1ough-­· · all · th+ee were th(;:)re� .Then--in what .must be a stroke of geni_us--the .Friedmans and Ge"rwick got a tape· recorder ready and got into. Al '_s car. The police, who· were hiding-in the alley, obligingly came up arid ordered them out. of the car. (Later, the-poliee claimed.that the Friedman's Halloween adventures began· tnree were trying to escape, but-all ,three young men deny the claim.) about 8 p.m. when he and his brother.· Todd and a friend, Max Gerwick, were tailed- through Lexington by what the , "Get out!"· said the. police. · � . .. trio saia:were ·a_ 'pair of CB.:...equipped -: W�bb's cohort in tricks..:or-treats Greg.� police helpers. Tulle of the world fa�ous Lexington P_�D. According to them, police recruit· helpful sympathizers to ride a:ound Lexington in cars ·equipped with CB radios to be on the lookout --"Have you 'three ever 'been" cornholedI " ' for "troublemakers" on Halloween. " asked Tulle. _ "You' re gonna get corplioled now. " . · The Friedmans and Gerwick entertained their trailing law-and-order nuts for · --"Gerwick, if -it's the last thing about a half hour before heading for r - do, I'll put you away for good," .the Friedmans' residence'', · threatened Tulle. " · · Then they and Marty Gerwick --Webb claimed that one ·Of the entertained themselves for a while by Friedmans' sist�rs-performed sexual tossing apples and pears over houses. acts with him.. Th'e sisters are 14· and ·in the general direction of patrol 16 years old. c'.3-rs. They apparently scored a ·few direct hits, but their-precautions - --Tulle threatened to arrest one of . (keeping houses between .themselves the sisters. and the law-and-order nuts)'made it impossrble for them to be caught or --The police ··also mentioned -that the.re even identified.